Wednesday, September 29, 2010

A Day in My Life

Dear Friends,Here is a glimpse of a recent day at home in North Carolina. I spent my morning in the kitchen. My ingredients list included: eggs, flour, butter, milk and oranges (I like to make fresh squeezed juice).

Here I am settling down to enjoy my breakfast!

Later I worked in my studio where my ingredients list included: paintbrushes, tubes of colorful paint, papers and pencils

The sun was out and the room was bright.Sweet fruit juice, a plate of pancakes and time to work.No complaints.

Dear Eric,Thanks so much for your post. You inspire my students and I so much!In fact, I just posted a sample of our "Eric Carle inspired art" on our classroom blog if you'd like to check it out? The buffalo is our school mascot.Love ya much, Melle in FLfrom The Villages Charter Schoolwww.strokesofart.blogspot.com

My husband was reading one of your books to our 3 year old son. My husband is German and asked him how would he pronounce you last name in German. He said it, then I told him `well, Eric Carle is a German too` and he said that he did not know. I told him that I will check on wikipedia and a few websites too. Now they are still in the bed, reading your book and I found your blog, so I am writing this greeting message to you. I guess I am gonna be one of your blog readers too.Greetings from Southern California..oh, I gotta go, they call me :o)

Just found your blog and wanted to let you know how much our daughter enjoys reading your books. She loves to go to the school library and check out books to read, and they are always an Eric Carle book! I think she checked every single one out last year while in Kindergarten and has begun to do it again now that she is in first grade. She was so excited when I picked her up from school today because they had watched a "movie" about Eric Carle. I don't think she would have tolerated a movie about any other author...she would have demanded Eric Carle! :)

We've both illustrated a book by Bill Martin Jr. but yours was better! Glad I found your blog. This post was so much fun—to see YOU eating pancakes. I linked to your book, blog and website on a post I did with a whole grain pancake recipe and children's pancake books to read. http://www.wordplayhouse.com/2011/01/pancakes-for-breakfast.html.

Eric...I'm a principal of a school and two staff members recently talked about the pronunciation of your last name...Carl or Carlee? I was always assuming Carol but wanted to get it straight from the horses mouth.

About Me

The Very Hungry Caterpillar is one of the more than 70 picture books that I have written and/or illustrated. I was born in the U.S. and was raised in Germany. My background is in graphic design but since the late 1960's when I illustrated Bill Martin Jr's Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? I have been creating books for children. My illustrations are collages made with my own hand-painted tissue papers, a technique many children have replicated and enjoyed in their classrooms and at home. With my late wife Barbara, I am also the cofounder of The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, MA.